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God knows what you would have thought at EMA today then! 25 of us just wandering around a 737 for 3 hours, shutting up and going home! 25 cabin crew just standing round a 737, Wasteful if ever I've heard it!!!
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Just back from SXF yesterday, flight fully packed. Good to see the E-Gates in Use. Could probably do with a few more of them to be fair though. A lot of folk seemed to be struggling with their passports on them
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Jamesair, correct! 
last week of training starts back down at East Mids on Wednesday and I should get my wings on Monday all being well!
GrahamK, has the new arrivals extension opened fully yet? How many e-gates do we have?
last week of training starts back down at East Mids on Wednesday and I should get my wings on Monday all being well! GrahamK, has the new arrivals extension opened fully yet? How many e-gates do we have?
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Congratulations, are you going to be based back up in Newcastle once you have your wings or will you be flying from elsewhere?
Regarding ground handling, unless Jet2 decide to self handle under the wing (not sure what the numbers required for that to happen are, but Newcastle is now the third smallest base for Jet2, only Belfast and Edinburgh are smaller) we have a monopoly of just Swissport handling. So, prices probably could rise as Swissport have no competition, airlines either then have to self handle, absorb the cost or just pull out the airport. Which isn’t ideal.
Regarding ground handling, unless Jet2 decide to self handle under the wing (not sure what the numbers required for that to happen are, but Newcastle is now the third smallest base for Jet2, only Belfast and Edinburgh are smaller) we have a monopoly of just Swissport handling. So, prices probably could rise as Swissport have no competition, airlines either then have to self handle, absorb the cost or just pull out the airport. Which isn’t ideal.
Happy summer season folks.
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Thank you! One of TUI’s newest trolley dolly’s here, look forward to seeing you all onboard! Exciting new chapter
If anyone’s at the airport at 06:30 on 12th May I’m off to Palma on my first flight, pictures appreciated! Or Larnaca on 24th 😉 providing I’m not sacked on my first outing! 😂
If anyone’s at the airport at 06:30 on 12th May I’m off to Palma on my first flight, pictures appreciated! Or Larnaca on 24th 😉 providing I’m not sacked on my first outing! 😂
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I used the e-gates yesterday on my return from Holland. There's 6 iirc and they're very fast. Much faster processing than the ones at Schiphol. There were still 3 booths for non EU etc passengers in operation.
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I'm guessing it was head winds over central Europe, the ground speed did reduce in that area, although I couldn't find any other A321s flying from the UK to Cyprus that needed to stop.
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I just hope Easyjet or Ryanair come up with some new routes otherwise 2019 is looking a bit light on growth in pax numbers. At least Jet 2 are expanding...more seats and two new routes.
